Photoshop Lightroom 4 Essentials: Enhancing Photos with the Develop Module

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In this installment of the Photoshop Lightroom 4 Essentials series, author and teacher Chris Orwig guides photographers through the process of improving images with creative color, sharpening, and other effects in the Lightroom Develop module. The course covers each of the tools and features in the Develop module, and shows how to perform basic adjustments, such as exposure enhancement; how to improve image quality through noise reduction and clarity adjustments; how to apply creative effects, such as split toning and vignettes; and how to perform advanced tasks, such as correcting for lens distortion. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

Improving tone, color, and contrast with the Basic panel

Adjusting hue, saturation, and lightness with the HSL controls

Performing local edits using the adjustment brush

Converting to black and white

Split toning to create a sepia tone

Understanding sharpening

Correcting distortion

Removing chromatic aberration

Adding or correcting vignettes

Using the post-crop controls

Adding film grain effects

Understanding camera calibration in Lightroom

Content:

Introduction

2m 1s

Welcome

1m 17s

Using the exercise files

44s

1. Getting Started with the Develop Module

22m 4s

Develop module overview and essential shortcuts

4m 13s

Panel navigation tips

4m 53s

Using the Develop module presets

3m 32s

Creating your own presets

4m 1s

Using the Snapshot and History panels

3m 40s

Working with the tool strip

1m 45s

2. Develop Module Workflow Tips

15m 20s

Working with legacy Lightroom files

6m 53s

Viewing the before and after

4m 29s

Comparing and surveying images

3m 58s

3. Working with Color Temperature and White Balance

19m 42s

Understanding white balance and color temperature

2m 43s

Using the White Balance Selector tool

4m 22s

Correcting white balance with a color checker

3m 52

Working with white balance presets and fine-tuning white balance

4m 24s

Color correcting multiple images at once

2m 42s

Creativity and white balance

1m 39s

4. Masking Basic Tonal Adjustments

23m 5s

Getting familiar with the tone controls

3m 19s

Deconstructing the tone controls

5m 39s

Using the tone controls to enhance photographs

5m 28s

Correcting clipping with the tone controls

4m 53s

Synchronizing tonal adjustments with multiple images

3m 46s

5. Improving Vibrance, Saturation, and Clarity

22m 31s

Understanding vibrance and saturation

5m 6s

Working with vibrance and saturation

5m 38s

Color creativity with temperature, vibrance, and saturation

3m 19s

Understanding clarity

2m 34s

Using clarity in collaboration with vibrance and saturation

5m 54s

6. Basic Panel Workflow Reflections

10m 37s

Basic panel workflow

3m 38s

Using Auto Tone

1m 42s

Workflow considerations

5m 17s

7. Cropping and Composing

18m 27s

Cropping

3m 29s

Changing the crop aspect ratio

1m 47s

Straightening with the Crop tool

2m 49s

Working with the crop overlay

3m 4s

Crop creativity and orientation

2m 36s

Synchronizing crop settings

2m 36s

Exploring how to improve the composition of your photographs

2m 6s

8. Retouching Tools

15m 55s

Retouching with the Spot Removal tool

8m 26s

The Spot Removal tool: Clone versus Heal

4m 56s

Fixing red-eye

2m 33s

9. Using the Graduated Filter

16m 43s

Introducing the Graduated Filter

5m 14s

Darkening the sky with the Graduated Filter

6m 10s

Enhancing a sunrise with the Graduated Filter

5m 19s

10. Making Localized Adjustments

45m 51s

Adjustment Brush overview

7m 45s

Using Auto Mask

5m 55s

Burning and dodging a black-and-white image

6m 44s

Reducing noise

5m 40s

Minimizing moiré patterns

3m 18s

Painting in localized sharpening

2m 14s

Improving the eyes

4m 6s

Dimishing a distracting highlight

3m 42s

The Adjustment Brush and Basic panel workflow

6m 27s

11. Modifying the Tone Curve

15m 38s

Demystifying the Tone Curve controls

5m 5s

Using the tone curve to correct exposure

2m 16s

Changing tone and color with the the point tone curve

3m 39s

Making creative RGB adjustments

4m 38s

12. Changing HSL and Color

13m 36s

Understanding the HSL controls

4m 4s

Using the HSL Target Adjustment tool

1m 40s

Brightening tones with HSL

3m 21s

Using HSL to bring out warm and cool tones

1m 47s

Creative color with HSL

2m 44s

13. Converting to Black and White

36m 35s

Introducing black-and-white conversion

2m 38s

Converting to black and white

2m 16s

Modifying black-and-white tones with the Grayscale panel

5m 26s

Enhancing black-and-white images with the Adjustment Brush

9m 4s

Using presets to convert to black and white

5m 13s

Black-and-white workflow with virtual copies

5m 29s

Black-and-white images and collections

4m 22s

Creating better black-and-white photographs

2m 7s

14. Creative Color with Split Toning

14m 2s

Split-toning essentials

3m 34s

Advanced split-toning tips

2m 44s

Split toning a color image

3m 5s

Split toning to create a sepia-tone effect

2m 22s

Using split toning to enhance a sunrise

2m 17s

15. Noise Reduction and Sharpening

12m 21s

Introducing noise reduction

5m 10s

Understanding sharpening

5m 2s

Sharpening workflow

2m 9s

16. Making Lens Corrections

13m 35s

Using the Lens Correction controls

1m 56s

Correcting distortion

2m 45s

Making subtle adjustments to composition and tone

4m 10s

Removing fish-eye distortion

3m 18s

Removing chromatic aberration

1m 26s

17. Adding Vignette and Grain Effects

12m 55s

Adding and correcting vignettes

2m 24s

Using the Post-Crop controls

4m 5s

Adding a post-crop vignette

4m 26s

Working with film grain

2m 0s

18. Using the Camera Calibration Controls

5m 34s

Understanding camera calibration in Lightroom

3m 20s

Creative color with camera calibration

2m 14s

Conclusion

21s

Goodbye

21s